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What would be the windows acl permission equivalent of 600 permission in linux

I am trying to write the equivalent java code for setting 600 permission for a file in Windows. Below is the method I am using:
acl.setPermissions(EnumSet.of(
AclEntryPermission.READ_DATA, AclEntryPermission.WRITE_DATA, AclEntryPermission.WRITE_ATTRIBUTES,
AclEntryPermission.SYNCHRONIZE, AclEntryPermission.WRITE_NAMED_ATTRS, AclEntryPermission.APPEND_DATA
));
I tried to create file using only AclEntryPermission.READ_DATA and AclEntryPermission.WRITE_DATA but I get access-denied error.
Unless I add the other parameters listed in above method, file is not being created.
Can someone brief or point me to a resource explaining the other attributes ( I tried to google but I only get the oracle docs link giving a one line explanation of the attribute) ?
Also please tell if I need to add any other parameters from the AclEntryPermission enum.

Call .dll functions using Java

I need to write an application for a client that calls a method from a ".dll" file. The ".dll" file was previously executed manually from an ".exe" GUI but now they want to automate the process.
I never worked with .dll files so everything that I found until now is the result of a complete day of research, I also received a small documentation with this tool:
The interface is an ActiveX DLL which provides two functions (GetUnitInfo and SaveResult).
In the moment I just want to run the "GetUnitInfo" method from the Winwdows command line using RUNDLL32.exe.
This is the documentation for the "GetUnitInfo" method:
The interface for GetUnitInfo is as follows:
Public Function GetUnitInfo( _
ByVal strRequest As String, _
ByRef strUnitInfo As String,
Optional ByVal strStationName As String = "") As Long
Sample calling code can be:
Dim lRet As Long
Dim strXML as String
lRet = GetUnitInfo( _“<?xml version=""1.0"" ?><GetUnitInfo
xmlns=""urn:GetUnitInfo-schema"" SerialNumber=""BD3ZZTC8MA"" />", strXML)
So I tried to run this method with some dummy parameters because the method returns an error if the parameters are not OK. The command:
RUNDLL32.EXE FFTester.dll, GetUnitInfo test1, test2
But I receive this error:
I used "Dependency Walker" to list the functions from the dll file:
But this are all the functions, normally I would expected that also "GetUnitInfo" is listed.
Can somebody help? It is not mandatory to use RUNDLL32.
Later edit:
I want to call this DLL from a tool that is written in JAVA, I tried to use JNA but I failed so I was thinking to call the dll functions from the command line because if this works I can use a process builder to execute the command.

I fixed my problem and I will provide a solution, maybe it will help someone else.
I used com4j library to generate the interfaces for my dll. After this you need to register your DLL otherwise most problely your code will throw an "ComException", you can read more in my second question.
To register a DLL:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64>regsvr32.exe "path to your DLL" for 32 bit DLL
Or
C:\Windows\System32>regsvr32.exe "path to your DLL" for 64 bit DLL
Also depending on your DLL type, 32 or 64 bit, you need to use proper Eclipse/JDK.

Vim Syntastic Java Unaware of Current Project Classes

Using Vim Syntastic with an android project. (e.g. com.myproject.project) It's not aware of classes declared within my project but outside of the current file. e.g. the following flags errors:
import com.myproject.project.SomeClass;
...
SomeClass someclass = new SomeClass();

Saw this post Configure syntastic to work fine with Android projects which solve the problem:
Method 1:
Inside vim editor
:SyntasticJavacEditClasspath
Then add the following to the buffer window
/path-to-your-app/bin/classes
/path-to-your-android-sdk/platforms/android-19/*.jar
Method 2:
Add the following to the .vimrc:
let g:syntastic_java_javac_classpath = "/<path-to-your-app>/bin/classes:/<path-to-your-android-sdk>/platforms/android-19/*.jar"

Here is a summary of the various methods which worked for me in linux vim7.4 and Syntastic3.7.0-224 with credit to each.
Method 1 - manual creation of .syntastic_javac_config
1. Edit .vimrc and use this syntax:
let g:syntastic_java_javac_config_file_enabled = 1
2. Where you edit your vim files, add this to a file named .syntastic_javac_config
let g:syntastic_java_javac_classpath = '/home/davis/progs/princeton-algos/week1/libs/algs4.jar'
Method 2 - advantage no matter where you edit the class path is known.
1. Edit .vimrc and use this syntax:
let g:syntastic_java_javac_classpath = "/home/davis/progs/princeton-algos/week1/libs/algs4.jar"
This adds the jar and
Method 3 - Automatic generation of .syntastic_javac_config file
1. Edit .vimrc and use this syntax:
let g:syntastic_java_javac_config_file_enabled = 1
2. Edit a java file with vim
3. :SyntasticJavacEditClasspath
When the edit window opens, add the class path without quotes and a newline after each entry the class path. In my case, this is the entry
for the setting includes the current folder as well:
/home/davis/progs/princeton-algos/week1/libs/algs4.jar
.
4 :wq the edit setting window
5. Now the class path is set for syntastic when editing files from that location. If you edit from a new directory, you will need to repeat the process.
Besides the comments above, this post also helped.

Problem loading R own created libraries in Java/JRI code

I created my own new R library (called "Media"). There is no problem when I try to load it with RGui, and I can call the functions defined in the new package. This is how I load it:
> library(Media)
But, I'm also trying to call that functions from Java/JRI code, and when I load the new R package, Java doesn't seem to find the pacakge, throwing the message "Error in library(Media) : object 'Media' not found"
This is my current code using JRI:
REXP rexpSetFolder = re.eval("setwd('C:/Users/Albert/Documents')");
REXP rexpFolder = re.eval("getwd()");
System.out.println(rexpFolder.asString());
REXP rexpLoad = re.eval("library(Media)"); // fails
It also fails without the 'setwd' command, and simple calls to existing R functions work fine. I'm using R 2.10 and the latest JRI 0.5-0 under Windows.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Edit:
The parameter lib.loc seems to work, at least this sentence does not return an error:
library("Media", lib.loc = "c:/Users/Albert/Documents")
But after that, calling a function in the package with re.eval("myfunction()"); still fails, as the function is not properly found.

You can modify the library path - see ?.libPaths in R, you simply want to add your private library to the path. The GUI does that for you, but if you are outside it doesn't happen. For example:
re.eval(".libPaths('c:/users/foo/Documents/R')");
Then load your package.

Did you install the library properly first? You might want to try using the lib.loc parameter.
library("Media", lib.loc = "c:/Users/Albert/Documents")

My work-around was to copy the package from my personal library (%USERPROFILE%\Documents\R) to the global library (%R_HOME%\library).
It's not the best because this requires Administrator privileges which not all users will have...

Java reports alias (symlink) as size 0 on Mac OSX. How do I get the true file size?

File file = new File("path to file alias foo");
where "path to file alias foo" is an alias reports file size to be 0 instead of the actual file size. I found a workaround to test for aliases:
public boolean isLink() {
try {
if (file.getAbsolutePath().equals(file.getCanonicalPath())) {
return false;
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
logger.severe(ex.getMessage());
}
return true;
}
EDIT Actually this code does not work, as pointed out by a poster below. I was trying to adapt a solution from a linux symlink example, but I didn't realize that finder aliases and symlinks were not the same.
NOT! this seems to work, but ....
file.getCanonicalFile().length();
still reports file length to be 0. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Finder aliases are a different beast altogether from normal symbolic links. The *nix tools on OS X are not aware of aliases at all, because they're stored in the resource fork, I believe. If you install osxutils, you can use this shell command to get the target of an alias:
hfsdata -e the-alias
From Java, I don't know of a better way of doing this other than calling Runtime.exec(...).
Also, I just a did a quick check, and your function for detecting aliases does not work. AFAICT, Java is not aware of Finder aliases. If you really want to support them, then you'll either need to use something like osxutils, or use some platform-specific code to read resource forks (will probably involve JNI). Neither option is pretty.
If you go the JNI route, check out the Alias Manager Reference documentation. The relevant functions are FSIsAliasFile and FSResolveAliasFile.

You can use the FileRef Interface from the O'Reilly Java NIO API. I believe the getAttribute() method can handle symbolic links as you want, but I have not tried it on Mac OSX. From the docs:
The options array may be used to
indicate how symbolic links are
handled for the case that the file is
a symbolic link. By default, symbolic
links are followed and the file
attribute of the final target of the
link is read. If the option
NOFOLLOW_LINKS is present then
symbolic links are not followed and so
the method returns the file attribute
of the symbolic link.

size = new File(file.getCanonicalPath()).length();